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Contemporary Cultural and Social Studies

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Gerald Posselt
Industrial Union of Metalworkers
2
Michelle Rada
Yale University
3
Tiana Bakić Hayden
El Colegio de México
4
Diego Semerene
Amsterdam University of the Arts
5
Berend van Wijk
Unknown
6
Yevhen Laniuk
Lviv University
7
Ömer ÖZKAYA
Police Academy
8
Marta Bashovski
University of Regina
9
George Kowalik
King's College London
10
Richard Huddleson
National University of Ireland

Rising Stars Papers

1
Incomplete documentation, social isolation, and culinary estrangement: Factors affecting food security among urban migrant populations in Mexico
Global Food Security|2024
6 cit.
2
Born to blossom, bloom, then perish? The rise and fall of the <i>Pomells de Joventut de Catalunya</i> (1920–1923)
Journal of Iberian & Latin American Studies|2024
1 cit.
3
Rescaling Food Insecurity
Migration and Society|2024
1 cit.
4
KAHRAMANMARAŞ DEPREMLERİ ARDINDAN YAŞANAN OHAL VE OHAL CBK’LERİNİN HUKUK DEVLETİ İLKESİ ÇERÇEVESİNDE BİR ANALİZİ
Memleket Siyaset Yönetim|2024
1 cit.
5
The trans gender subject of fashion
International Journal of Fashion Studies|2024
0 cit.
6
Prayers as worldmaking in the publications of the <i>Pomells de Joventut</i> (1920–1923)
Journal of Iberian & Latin American Studies|2025
0 cit.
7
Understanding Illiberalism Through Economic Practice: Four Cases
Economic Anthropology|2025
0 cit.
8
Politik und Aphasie
Zeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie|2025
0 cit.
9
Daring Adaptations, Creative Failures and Experimental Performances in Iberian Theatre
Hispanic Research Journal|2025
0 cit.
10
Freudian Friction
NOVEL A Forum on Fiction|2025
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Genevieve Yue
University of Theatre and Film Arts
2
Ansgar Allen
University of Sheffield
3
Moran M. Mandelbaum
Keele University
4
Sarah Muir
The Graduate Center, CUNY
5
Fabien Littel
Oxford Brookes University
6
Ivan Estevão
Unknown
7
Chanmi Ko
Academy of Korean Studies
8
Cheralyn Mealor
Aarhus University
9
kąrî’kạchä seid'ou
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
10
Санне Равенсберген
Unknown

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Regimes of motherhood: Social class, the word gap and the optimisation of mothers’ talk
The Sociological Review|2022
10 cit.
2
Disappointment
Annual Review of Anthropology|2022
10 cit.
3
Illiberal economies: ambivalence and critique in an alternative investment scheme
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute|2022
7 cit.
4
Introduction to Special Issue: Interrogating the Void: Lacanian Psychoanalysis in International Relations
International Studies Quarterly|2023
7 cit.
5
Moving from responsibility learning <i>inaction</i> to ‘responsibility learning-in-action’: A student-educator collective writing on the ‘unnoticed’ in the hidden curriculum at business schools
Management Learning|2023
6 cit.
6
Interpellation and the Politics of Belonging: A Psychoanalytical Framework
International Studies Quarterly|2023
4 cit.
7
Bataille and the Poverty of Academic Form
Studies in Philosophy and Education|2023
4 cit.
8
The death of thought: Reading Bataille in the ruins of a university
Research in Education|2023
3 cit.
9
Towards an Experimental Education Criticism: eleven notes in place of a manifesto
CounterText|2024
2 cit.
10
Roland Barthes and the death of the teacher
Oxford Review of Education|2023
1 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Noortje van Amsterdam
Utrecht University
2
Arthur Kleinman
Harvard University
3
Niamh Stephenson
UNSW Sydney
4
Ana Cecilia Dinerstein
University of Bath
5
Joanne Roberts
University of Southampton
6
Pia Bramming
Aarhus University
7
Amparo Merino de Diego
Universidad Pontificia Comillas
8
Mathias Thaler
University of Edinburgh
9
Christy E. Newman
UNSW Sydney
10
Vivienne Bozalek
Rhodes University

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
The illness narratives: suffering, healing, and the human condition
Choice Reviews Online|1988
3.6k cit.
2
Culture, Illness, and Care
Annals of Internal Medicine|1978
2.9k cit.
3
Concepts and a model for the comparison of medical systems as cultural systems
Social Science & Medicine Part B Medical Anthropology|1978
1k cit.
4
Limits to Communities of Practice
Journal of Management Studies|2006
805 cit.
5
Knowing in action: Beyond communities of practice
Research Policy|2008
777 cit.
6
Culture and Depression
New England Journal of Medicine|2004
774 cit.
7
Anthropology and Psychiatry
The British Journal of Psychiatry|1987
729 cit.
8
From Know-how to Show-how? Questioning the Role of Information and Communication Technologies in Knowledge Transfer
Technology Analysis and Strategic Management|2000
692 cit.
9
Neurasthenia and depression: A study of somatization and culture in China
Culture Medicine and Psychiatry|1982
678 cit.
10
Pain as Human Experience: An Anthropological Perspective.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews|1993
502 cit.

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